Name: Marvel Worldwide, Inc.
(American comics corporation).Personal dates: Founded in 1939 by Martin
Goodman (1908-1992) as Timely Comics. Today the corporation is
owned by The Walt Disney Company.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention here. Please
look under Marvel in the Creators section.
Successors: None.
Comments: The corporation's logo has changed several
times over the years. The selected one is from the 1990s.

MAIN STORY

The
series premiered in 1974. Stopped in 1975 after 22 issues, but has been
revived several times since then.

The starring character is a former
biochemist Theodore 'Ted' Sallis, who, while working on a project in
Florida's Everglades, had an accident that turned him into a plantlike,
humanoid creature. This also supplied him with superhuman strength and
special empathic senses, but he is now doomed to a life in the swamps.